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Den moderne kulturelle skole i Aarhus V/ the modern cultural school in Aarhus V - Anna Line 

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Den moderne kulturelle skole i Aarhus V/ the modern cultural school in Aarhus V - Anna Line 

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Field site:
Den moderne kulturelle skole (the modern cultural school) in Aarhus V, it is a school that seems to differentiate itself from other schools by their two main purposes, the first is to educate the students in (their perception of) Islamic values and second to prepare them for the Danish society by educating them to become 'good' medborgere (fellow citizens) and learn them about democratic practices.

Key question(s):
How do they deal with bilingual students and try to prepare them for the Danish society by learning them about a part of their (presumably) cultural or religious background? What are the underlying assumptions they build this upon according to themselves?

Methods:
Observations of class teaching, breaks, and staff room.
Focus interview with the children on topics (maybe using visuals or other things that could help the communication).
Informal interviews during the day with e.g. parents, teachers, staff, and children.
Semi-structured interview with some of the teachers, principal or others.
Participant observation maybe it could be possible to presentations in the classes or otherwise participate in the teaching, e.g. helping the students doing the classes.

Reason/interests:
I find it interesting as an approach to deal with integration that seems different from other schools I know about. Also, I find it interesting to learn more about this approach to deal with bilingual and/or bicultural students.

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What does living abroad mean to you? - Blanka

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What does living abroad mean to you? - Blanka

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Questions:
- What being abroad means to students and their parents? How do students experience leaving friends and family behind, starting a new life? How do parents feel about that?
- Things, feelings they didn’t expect (both parent and child) - what did they expect it was gonna be like?
- Why do students go abroad? What are the motives behind the decision?

Field site: One on one conversations at places chosen together with informant - home, cafe, bar, etc.

Method: Interviews. with app. 6-10 friends of mine.Sort of free conversation, with a focus on the topic of being abroad. The parents would be reached through Skype or phone with or without the presence of the students.

Reasons: I have met many international students here and heard very different approaches to the "living abroad life". Reason for including parents would serve sort of as an "outsider perspective" on these students - how do they perceive the situation?

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"Demencia - a life in two worlds" - Freja 

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"Demencia - a life in two worlds" - Freja 

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I would like to investigate the demencia life of my grandmother, Laura. I wanna see how she goes back and forth from the real life and the life she remembers (the two worlds). I will look for patterns in her actions and daily routines and see what connections they have. She is a former school teacher and a maker of cross words, but retired many years ago, but this she has forgotten (for the most of the time). It would be interesting to see how she manage to merge to two realities.

Key questions:
- How does a person with demencia experience the two worlds?
- What triggers the memory?
- What is the nursing home for Laura? (search for patterns in her apartment)

Fieldsite: The nursing home.
I will visit her every day for the two weeks. I have an idea that the one week I will call her "bedstemor", but the next "Laura" to see what that triggers.

Methods:
Partly participant observation, where I'll be the granddaughter, then make a interview (semistructured).
I will also interview the staff.
* Life stories and shared experience by Vibeke Steffen: Illness narratives

Other considerations:
- Is there social and cultural factors that play a part in a demencia life? (maybe two much)
- Ethics: Me as a granddaughter - what does that do? Pros and cons. (include this dilemma in the final paper)
- Ask her about her memory loss - how does she cope with it?
- Recordings: Recordings of her + pictures (need permission)

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1.    Key questions:

In the aspect of cultural meetings, and in this case the cultural meeting when moving from Greenland to Denmark to study - what are the main impressions and things to adjust to? And how can we prepare and inform future Greenlandic students in Denmark?

2.    Possible field site:

Avalak Aarhus (organisation for Greenlandic student)
Det Grønlandske Hus i Aarhus
Join/hang out with Greenlandic student.

3.    Methods you think you will be using:

Interviews
participant-observation

4.    Provide some reasoning for your interest in the topic:

Since I in some way study my “own position” I know how difficult it can be studying abroad. Greenlandic students have a lot of opportunities here in Denmark and it can seem scary to move so far away and hard when you finally get here. I think there is some important issues you can come across when studying the cultural differences, cause Denmark and Greenland are very different cultural.

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Key questions:
What it is about yoga that makes it so popular amongst people in a western society?
How widely is the practice of yoga associated with eastern culture when practiced in a studio in Aarhus?
What aspects of the eastern practice are maintained during classes and to what benefit?
How has the media affected the popularity of yoga in western societies (if at all)?

Methods:
Observations
Participant observation
Interviews, in the beginning unstructured, later semi structured
Maybe analysis of media platforms

Interest:
I have noticed a rise in popularity and I find it fascinating how the practice has been incorporated into the lives of the people of western societies

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1. Key question(s) you are interested in

How does the feeling of togetherness and cohesion arise through sport?

2. Possible fieldsite

Setting: Sports club (stadium)

Vejlby/Risskov hallen + ASA + VSK

People: athletes, coach, fans and board

3. Methods you think you will be using

Observation: I will look and see WHAT they do in the sports
Participant observation: I will do the sport with them
Interview: I will try figure out WHY

4. Provide some reasoning for your interest in the topic

Besides being a natural personal interest to me, I find it interesting to see what connects people (across backgrounds) to the same feeling, and what drives these people to maintain a commitment to the sport. (Is it the sports culture, the community or the mental aspect?)

For consideration: gender, age, sport.

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Fieldsite and key questions:

Løve's Bog- og VinCafé (Løve’s Book and Wine Café) is a place located in Aarhus C. Despite its relatively small size, it is at the same time a bookshop, a café, a wine bar, and an event venue. How is this multi-identity of the place perceived/experienced by its guests, and how does it influence how the place is used? In a sense, what does it mean to “go to Løve's”?

Methods:

(Participant)-observation: observing the guests at Løve’s, while also being a guest there myself. Observing the staff. Going to some of the events. Can shed light on what people do there, who goes there, what I feel as appropriate to do there (as a guest), how it feels to be there.

Interviews: interviewing some of the guests and staff, maybe just striking up a conversation. Can shed light on their personal experience of the place, why they go there and in what contexts.

Interest:

I heard about Løve’s from a fellow student the other day and I am fascinated with the multiple purposes of that one place. I know that you can always bring a book to a café to read, but this place is not just a café. It seems like a melting pot of culture and I’m fascinated by the interplay between these different “types” or elements of culture in one place.

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13.2.19. Marie - Being a 'facer' (e.g., for Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, Amnesty International, etc.)

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13.2.19. Marie - Being a 'facer' (e.g., for Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, Amnesty International, etc.)

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As of right now, I find it interesting to investigate the question of what drives so many young people to do what they do. Considering the fact that many of these ‘facers’ have to stand outside in all the different weather conditions, asking people to join their organisations leads me to assume that they genuinely believe in the cause of their respective organisations. Otherwise, how can they stand trying to convince so many people, most of whom probably dislike them, to join?

The fieldsite(s) will probably be somewhere in the city centre of Aarhus. However, I am also considering doing it in Copenhagen, seeing as there are far more facers (especially for Amnesty Int.) there, which may yield more significant data.

The methods will most likely be a mixture of observation, participant observation, and interviews. The observations can provide descriptions from the ‘outside’ (e.g., seeing how people react to the facers, how the facers position themselves amongst people, and so forth); the participant observations can provide some embodied experience, especially if I were to act like a facer myself (to get better insights as to what they go through on a daily basis); and interviews, of both the facers themselevs but also the people they approach, may provide insights into what they feel about their job, why they do it, etc. For the people they approach, an interview may lead to answers about why they did/did not join the organisation, what they feel about facers, etc.

The reason as to why I’m interested in the topic: Prior to landing on this topic, I was very interested in researching organisations like Greenpeace or other anti-fur/anti-hunting etc. organisations. However, I think I may be too biased to do so (my project might’ve turned into me trying to convince them to believe otherwise). Therefore i turned my interest to facers for Amnesty international/Folkekirkens Nødhjælp or the like because I know how annoying they can be to meet when walking down the street in the city, but also because I know that some of them are are so good at ‘selling’ the organisation. In addition to this, I assume a large majority of people dislike facers, which then most likely affects said facers’ day-to-day experience of being out and about.

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Nikolaj
Field site: Den Selvforsynende Landsby (”The self-sufficient village”) by Hundstrup, Fyn.

Preliminary research question (still very vague): How does Den Selvforsynende Landsby shape personal relations and ways of being together on the basis of an agricultural practice?

Methods: I intend to live in the village for at least a week of the fieldwork period, at first mainly partaking in daily life and conducting informal/unstructured interviews, maybe moving on to including more structured interviews after a while to get at questions about how people experience the vision/ideology of the village.

Motivation: two topics I’m interested in and find very important are sustainability and alternative ways of organizing societies, and this field site seems like it could provide some insight on both topics. I also think of it as an interesting twist on the debate surrounding “the village” as a closed unit and the classic anthropological field site.

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Questions:

How passengers divide themselves into busses?

-      Which seats are the most “popular”?

-      Do regular passengers prefer the same seat on their bus rides?

How do the passengers non-verballykeep strangers from sitting next them (body-language)?
What is the interaction between the passengers like?

Fieldsites:

Busses and busstops

Methods:

Participant observation. I will take the same busroute during the two weeks in order to identify regular passengers and patterns (if any).

Maybe interviews?

Interest/why?

I really enjoy taking the bus since it gives me a mental break from the everyday life. In the bus I feel sort of separated from the world and its expectations and responsibilities. Since I am “on the go”, I can’t really do the stuff I normally might be stressing over, and that makes me enjoy the time in the bus a lot. Also, I find the movement from one place to another interesting and I would like to observe how people behave in that transition. If the bus is a sacred time/place, like it is for me, or if it is something you just have to get through.

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Questions
How is the concept of personal transformation understood in relation to boxing

How do the participants and the coaches of the project 'Fit for life' understand the concept of transformation?

Fieldsite:
The fieldwork will take place at FAK boxing club where they have this project called ''Fit for life''. The project is for young people at the age of 18 - 30 who for different kind of reasons is without a job or education. By being a part of ''Fit for life'' they commit themselves to box 3 times a week for at least 3 months. Throughout these months, the participants get guidance on how they can get back to work or get an education.

Methods:
I will have to do a lot of participant observation to gain their trust. Maybe do some training with them, go into the boxing ring with them, box a little. Just being around so they get used to me.
I would like to do some semi-structured interviews with the coaches.
With the participants, I would use more unstructured interviews so they feel more comfortable, and I get their life experience.

Interest
I have a interest in small communities and how being a part of these have an impact on an individual. I find the concept of personal transformation really interesting, I came across the concept while working on my thesis, where rap music often is used as a tool to help young people out of crime. I found it really interesting how the young people see this transformation but also found it problematic to put these young people into boxes; If a person is from a certain environment or has a certain background this person must be into rap. How that creates stereotypes. If you are from the middle east you must be into middle eastern music. I did not have the time to get more into the topic while writing my BA, but it has inspired me to look at this project now.

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Why does the regulars at Værtshuset choose to spend so much of theyer daily life at this specific bar. How does the regulars present the social culture, environment and how much focus does the individuals attributs to alkohol.
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Metods: Participant observations, semi structured  interviews, photos, (book analysis-Tom Kristensen-Hærværk).
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Might the interest come from, the romanticized self-destruktive tendenseis which I attribute to using much of your life drinking at a bar. Is it a solution to deal with some of the sorrows of everydaylife ? Why this solution ? Who is it a solution for?

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Ditte: The use of the Danish Folkekirke (national church)

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Ditte: The use of the Danish Folkekirke (national church)

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How does it influence a non-religious event to be held in a religious setting? Why are religious spaces being used more and more for non-religious purposes?
Who attends these events?

I am going to conduct fieldwork primarily at UngK at Nørreallé in Aarhus, which is a youth church and part of the folkekirke. Here I will attend different kinds of non-religious events and I hope I will be able to join the people who are in charge of arranging these.
I intend to attend events in other churches too to gather enough data.

I am putting together an event calendar and aiming at attending as many as possible - so my fieldwork will inevitably stretch over a longer period than the two weeks in April. Here I will be observing, but definitely also participating (be it in singing, yoga, boardgames, dinner).
I would like to do interviews with the organisers and employees at the UngK and probably a mix of casual conversations and semi-structured interviews with attendees.

I have been coming to churches a lot all my life, but never with a religious purpose. I like the space, the acoustics, the history of each place, the atmosphere.
My interest at this moment, and for this specific project, is due to the fact that I have seen a development in the use of the folkekirke in the last years. There has always (at least in my time) been 'babysalmesang', choirs, preparation for confirmation, organ concerts, and 'børnegudstjeneste', but now I also notice movie nights with Jurassic Park, knitting and boardgames clubs, yoga classes, international dinners and Joey Moe concerts - i.e. new kinds of events are moving from club houses, shalas, or koncert halls and into the church.
Why is this? And does it affect the event? And the people attending?

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The intercultural communication in e.g. kindergardens. - parents and pedagogues- the children in between (verbal and non-verbal communication)

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The intercultural communication in e.g. kindergardens. - parents and pedagogues- the children in between (verbal and non-verbal communication)

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The potential identity conflicts that adolescents with a bicultural background might experience and deal with on daily basis.

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The potential identity conflicts that adolescents with a bicultural background might experience and deal with on daily basis.

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1. Key question(s) you are interested in:
What are the interactions that take place during, before and after roleplay?
What types of relations are there between people and the characters they play? Do they affect each other on a behavioral level?

2. Possible fieldsite:
Grotten, Århus. A union for roleplayers that holds arragements.

3. Methods you think you will be using:
Participant observation.
Interviews.

4. Provide some reasoning for your interest in the topic.
I am a roleplayer myself, but not within tabletop or LARP, so I have an interest in learning how that is done, and in the community.

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Difference between ages, genders, groups, time of day, exhibitions. Why do people visit artmuseums?

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Assumptions about gender and how it influences diagnosis (I.e: Girls with autism/aspergers are often diagnosed in a old age - because they at first are diagnosed with eating disorder, depression etc.)

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Why does the regulars at Værtshuset, choose to spend their time there.

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Why does the regulars at Værtshuset, choose to spend their time there.

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Why do people choose to adopt at a shelter instead of a breeder?
-       Did they plan on adopting when they entered the shelter?

-       How do the shelter advertise themselves?

Possible fieldsite:

Dyrenes Beskyttelse in Brande or Dansk Dyreværn Århus

Methods you think you will be using

Interviews with the employees at the shelter and possible buyers.

Observation of employees and possible buyers interactions with the animals

Interest in the topic:

I have had animals all my life and they have always been important to me. That’s why I’m interested in seeing how other people think and interact around/with animals.

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How can a community, in this case a boxing club, create a personal transformation?

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How can a community, in this case a boxing club, create a personal transformation?

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Subconscious rules that we all follow without explicit instructions

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What makes vegan people wanna be vegans? 

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What makes vegan people wanna be vegans? 

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How do foreigners experience living in Denmark?

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How do foreigners experience living in Denmark?

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How are they a part of the society? How are they not? How do they differ between the two cultures? Language barrier?

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How do people divide themselves into an empty bus

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What happens when art-courses in elementary school is taught by an actual artist instead of a regular teacher?
OR: Why do some artists choose to teach art-classes (e.g. for economic reasons)? How does that influence the identity as an artists (i.e. time used to teach instead of produce/make art)

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The locker room experience: Belgium vs Denmark and how men cope with social pressure 

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The locker room experience: Belgium vs Denmark and how men cope with social pressure 

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Does behavior change accordingly to a certain setting?

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How does international students create the notion of home, when they are living abroad in shared flats? 

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How does international students create the notion of home, when they are living abroad in shared flats? 

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- who are creating and participating in events that an innovative department initiate?

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How do the homeless deal with the stigma from society?
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How does the stigma of being homeless influence the identity of a homeless individual?

I am interested in researching the connection - or lack of - between “mainstream” society and the homeless from the perspective of the homeless. The project will most likely deal with topics such as identity, stigma, exclusion, power dynamics and “the others”. It will consist of multi-sided ethnography, as I will work through multiple field-sites incl. Døgnvarmestuer, Hus Forbi, and other sites where the homeless are spending much of their time.

During the first part of my project, my work methods will mainly be characterized by observations. From there, I’ll advance to interviews. Eventually I’ll adopt the participant observation approach, as I will “go native”, meaning I will try to become “homeless” myself.

The number of people categorized as “homeless” has steadily increased over the last couple of years, especially in Aarhus, and therefor cohesively increased the timeliness of the project.

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'Living in two worlds' / possible identity conflicts experienced in young people that have two cultures - Anna Line 

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'Living in two worlds' / possible identity conflicts experienced in young people that have two cultures - Anna Line 

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Key question(s):
What and how do some young people experience and balance having two cultures or having another cultural background than the majority in the society they live in?

Possible field sites:
I imagine the focus being on different young people and their personal experiences and that the field sites, therefore, should be adapted to their everyday life, containing everything from school/university, hanging with friends, working and when they are home.

Methods:
Cause I would like to ask questions that can be quite personal, I hope to establish the relations soon in order to earn their trust. I will use observations and if possible participant observations in order to attain some knowledge about their life and how they act, along with everyday conversations in order to get to know them better(so that I have a chance to know what I can and can't ask them about and how they react if they get uncomfortable). In the preliminary period, I would take pictures that could be used in the interviews later on. Then I will use semi-structured interviews on the topic and make use of the pictures and maybe make some exercises with the interviewees that could help them think about their life and priorities.

Reasons/interests:
I'm interested in this cause I would like to know more about some of the challenges one might meet when moving to a new country or grow up in a different culture than one's parents culture. Especially in the context of second-or third-generation immigrants.

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Teaching Art - When the Artist enters the classroom - Pernille

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Teaching Art - When the Artist enters the classroom - Pernille

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Overall inspiration: The ongoing, public debate - the importance of the creative courses in the Danish school system and whether these should be taught by artists (people with an occupation as an artist/education from a art-academy) or educated teachers.

Key questions: What happens to the identity of the artist as (s)he becomes a teacher (of children/teenagers) next to their occupation as an artist?

How does it influence the students (and the other teachers/colleagues)? Change of behavior? How is the classroom structured? (Observation)

Why is the teacher entering the classroom? For the sake of the children? The artist themselves (i.e. economic reasons)?
How does it influence the function/role of the artist in contemporary society?

Possible fieldsites: Nørrevangsskolen in Randers and the artclasses at Randers Ungdomsskole.  I will be attending classes over the course of the following months.

Methods: Observations, (structured and semistructured) interviews (of artist, old and new students), participation (?), litterature search.

Interest in topic: Used to attend the classes at Randers Ungdomsskole. Interested in art and how/why people use it. Wondering - what does it mean to be an artist today?

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Key question(s):

Main question:

How does international students create the notion of home while living abroad in shared flats with other international students

Other questions:

What happens if they don't create the notion of home?

Does the roommates become a sort of family while staying abroad?

Do they take certain "roles" within the flat?

What contributes to create the notion of home?

Objects, pictures, playlists, sounds, smells etc.?

Fieldsite:

Studentendorf Schlachtensee is an international student dormitory that is located in Berlin. Today the dormitory houses approximately 1300 international students from all over the world. I'm going to do my fieldwork in one flat that houses 6 international students, who are staying for 2 years or more.

Methods:

I'm going to live in the flat for 2 weeks and I'm going to do participant observation and do some unstructured interviews. Based on my observations and conversations with the students I would like to do some semi-structured interviews to get answers to the questions that occurs during my participant observations. Besides that I will use visuals to help me understand the participants notion of home, by asking them to show/send me pictures of their understanding of home, showing me objects that reminds them of home, sounds etc.

Interest in the topic:

I did an exchange semester in Berlin and I used to live at the dormitory in a shared flat with 4 international students. While living there I had a feeling that I created a notion of home and that's what created my interest in the topic. I'm curious about what can create a notion of home, when you live in a shared flat with people from all over the world, who all have a different understanding of home and I have an interest in understanding my own experiences with the topic.

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What is the process in collective learning? / How does a group learn collectively?
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At uni: The role of the instructor - the balance between being a student and being a teacher. The power relations between instructor, (professor,)and students
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L2 learners - LærDansk: What does "to learn Danish" mean? ..to teach Danish?

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How does people experience living in two worlds?

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How does people experience living in two worlds?